Holder



E. McCALLUM.

HOLDER APPLICATlON VFILED MAY 10, 1917.

1,342,853. Patented June 8. 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR MGCALLUM, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN A. SHERMAN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1920.

Application filed May 10, 1917. Serial No. 167,700.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR MCCALLUM, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is especially adapted for the support or holding of a type of drinking cup container such as is described in Letters Patent No. 1,222,566, granted to Sherman and Sherman, April 10, 1917, this container being particularly adapted for holding paper drinking cups of a kind now well known.

The container in question remains sealed after being filled with drinking cups at the factory and is provided with a slot through which the individual drinking cups are withdrawn. Because of the material of which it is made, it requires usually some means of support which will hold it firmly in'place while the drinking cups are being extracted. It is for this purpose that my holder is particularly adapted.

My invention will be understood by reference to the drawings in which- Figure l is a vertical section and Fig. 2 a cross section on line 4-& Fig. 1 of a holder embodying one form of my invention.

My holder comprises a rear wall B adapted to be attached to the wall of a room, a car or other permanent support of some kind. As shown it is provided with screw holes Z) for this purpose. It has side walls B which project forward from the rear wall so as to prevent the container from being displaced laterally. It also comprises a flooring C which as shown projects outwardly at right angles from the rear wall B but not so far as to cover a slot in the bottom of a container such, for example, as is described in Letters Patent No. 1,222,566 above referred to.

In this form of my invention the walls B are turned inwardly at their outer ends as at B so that the container which is made approximately of the same cross dimensions as the holder will be held firmly in place therein, to prevent the displacement of the container and hold it firmly while the drinking cup is being withdrawn.

In this form of my invention I provide a cover E which is hinged at c to the top of the rear wall of the holder, this cover being so shaped that it will reach out to, and rest over, the top of the inturned edges B of the side walls B I prefer to provide this form of my invention with a lock 6 of any convenient character and at any convenient point thereon to lock the cover when the container is in use. As shown, this lock is on one side of the holder. Thus the cup container can only be removed by unlocking the cover or destroying either the holder or container.

My invention provides means for keeping the container from lateral movement, but, what is more important, holding it firmly so that drinking cups may be withdrawn therefrom without moving the container. It may be made of any desired size according to the size of the container it is to receive, and being open in front, z. 6., between the opposing inturned edges of the sides B it will expose any label or advertisement which may be on the front of the container.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is The holder above described comprising a rear wall, side walls and a flooring, said rear wall being adapted to serve as a means of permanent attachment and said side walls serving to hold an article supported by the flooring from lateral displacement, the outer edges of said side walls being bent inwardly to engage the front edges of the articles contained therein and said rear wall having a cover hinged thereto adapted normally to rest upon said side walls to close the top of said holder, said cover hinge being bent downwardly to engage the top edge of said article whereby the front face thereof will be exposed for inspection.

EDGAR MoCALLUM. 

